On the TutsPlus.com site they've posted the latest tutorial of their "Building Your Startup" series. In this latest article author Jeff Reifman focuses on adding routes and handling for the "schedule with me" functionality.

For a long time since I began this project, I've wanted Meeting Planner and Simple Planner to have a publicly accessible page you can share with people to schedule a meeting with you. In other words, "Sure, let's meet, just visit my schedule with me page at Meeting Planner, I'm Bernie Sanders (no space)."

In today's tutorial, I'll show you I've done it using Yii's routing and some of the related issues that came up.

He starts with a screencast of the feature (the end result) showing how the UI functions and what features it includes. He then takes a step back and starts on the development process beginning with the planning quickly followed by the code. He shows the creation of the initial view, making the routing changes and how to handle signup and login for the "Schedule With Me" page.

The TutsPlus.com site has updated their "Building Your Startup" series with their latest tutorial showing you how to build advanced scheduling commands allowing for things like repeating meetings, updating the meeting details and rescheduling.

I also began to realize that the ability to adjust meetings easily after they've been scheduled could make or break the Meeting Planner brand. [...] In today's tutorial, I'll cover expanding the navigation bar using Bootstrap and the basics of building some of the advanced scheduling features within Meeting Planner. Next week, I'll review building the more complex feature for participants to request change(s) and for others to accept or decline them.

He starts with the frontend, updating the navigation bar to include links to other functionality for meeting changes, repeating and showing planning activities for the meeting. He uses Bootstrap's single-button dropdowns for this and includes the code to add them to the UI with a bit of code in the view. He then gets into the main functionality of these changes showing the code to:

make changes to a current meeting

reschedule a meeting

repeat a meeting

resend invitations

The next part in the series will take a look into social engineering and UX needs for the application along with some other smaller changes.

The TutsPlus.com site has posted the next in their "Building Your Startup" series of tutorials covering the use of Yii2 to create a calendaring application. In this new part of the series they continue migrating some functionality over to use an Ajax-powered system, reducing the need for page reloads.

In today's tutorial, I'll guide you through the more complex content panels that required a lot more troubleshooting, research, debugging, brainstorming, and recoding. [...] I'm also going to show you how I used Google's Chrome browser developer console to help me identify the broken areas—which can be especially difficult when working with Ajax between PHP and JavaScript. It's like light at the end of the tunnel of darkness.

The tutorial then walks through the updates needed to move over various pieces of functionality to the Ajax-driven model:

adding meeting participants

adding dates and times

adding meeting places

There's also a few screenshots included of the Chrome developer console and what some of the example request/responses look like, helping you debug your own development work.

NetTuts.com has continued their "Building Your Startup" series with this latest post focusing on the dashboard for the users of the meeting planner - a "quick look" into the current stats for their account.

For my initial statistics reporting, I focused on simple real-time data and detailed historical data. For example, real-time data would tell you the number of users and meetings built on the system to date and their status.

The historical data would tell you the number of users and meetings completed over time as well as other interesting data—especially growth curves that I and prospective investors may care about.

He then walks through the creation of the dashboard view, gathering together various pieces of real-time and historical data and displaying them in a simple table view. All code and SQL required is included as well as a few screenshots showing the results.

The TutsPlus.com site has published the latest tutorial in their "Building Your Startup" series that walks you through the creation of an application (a meeting planner) using the Yii2 framework. In this latest post they start on the reminders integration used to notify attendees of upcoming meetings.

his tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example. Every step along the way, I'll release the Meeting Planner code as open-source examples you can learn from. I'll also address startup-related business issues as they arise.

In this two-part series, I'll describe how we built the infrastructure for reminders and their delivery. This episode will focus on the infrastructure and user experience behind configuring reminders.

They start off by talking about the goals for the reminders and how they'll integrate with the current Meeting Planner system. With that settled the article shows you how to:

set up the "reminders" table in the database

set up reminders for new and existing users

linking them to meetings

adding code to handle the creation of new reminders

This is all setting the application up for the next part in the series where they'll use this structure (and some additional functionality) to allow users to create the reminders via the UI.

TutsPlus.com has posted the latest part in their "Building Your Startup with PHP" series today with a focus on delivering notifications to your users when meeting information is updated.

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example. Every step along the way, I'll release the Meeting Planner code as open-source examples you can learn from. I'll also address startup-related business issues as they arise.

In the prior episode, I described building the infrastructure for tracking changes to meetings so we would know how to share updates with participants. In this episode, I'll cover monitoring the log and delivering email notifications of changes.

They start with a look at monitoring for updates to current meetings via a "actionFrequent" method and the code required to locate and notify the correct people of the updates. Next up is the logging of these changes to the audit log and pulling a history of the meeting to show what actually changed. Finally there's code to deliver the actual update email.

NetTuts.com continues its "Building Your Startup with PHP" series today in this latest post enhancing the application and allowing the user to add a meeting.

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real life example. Every step along the way, we'll release the Meeting Planner code as open source examples you can learn from. We'll also address startup-related business issues as they arise. All of the code for Meeting Planner is written in the Yii2 Framework for PHP.

In this new post (one of four that will deal with adding a meeting) they start by creating the initial meeting listing page that includes a description, last update date and icons linking to actions to perform on that meeting. Next up they create the "Create Meeting" form and the functionality behind the scenes to make it work. This includes some alerting functionality as well. Next is the functionality to invite people to the meetings, using autocomplete handling to make it easier to locate individuals. Following this they include code to add locations (integrating Google Maps), assigning a meeting time and adding additional notes.

At Qandidate.com we tried a lot of different project management tools and techniques. After two years of experimenting I want to share our current process, seen from my role as product owner (PO). One reason for sharing this, is to help you improve your process, but the most important reason is to start a discussion with you based on your experience, to improve our process even more. Our main rule at Qandidate.com is to embrace change. Always be open for changes that may or may not improve your process. If a change improves the process it’s a win. If you didn’t try it you will never know!

They walk through the three main points over the overall flow of work there:

The process itself including two week sprints containing (unestimated) stories

A demo and stakeholders meeting showing the work they've done during the sprint and get feedback from the stakeholders

The stories and how they're created and when/how new ones are added (their "piano meetings").

They also include testing, both frontend and backend, and focus on small chunks of functionality instead of quick and dirty hacks. While their process won't work for every group (and is more of a "scrum-but..." setup) it is interesting to see how another group does their work.

When it comes to multi-tasking and interacting with the operating system, PHP is no lightweight. In this talk we’ll explore PHP’s little-known POSIX, Process Control, and Semaphore extensions and show you how to introduce a parallel dimension to your applications.

A "mini-talk" will also be given by Jason Bouffard about screen scraping with Goutte. The meeting is on December 6th at 7pm at the Strongbox West offices in Atlanta.

Gearman is a simple and robust tool for distributing asynchronous or offline work across a large number of worker boxes. Gearman will let you run a simple asynchronous task in only a few lines of code (and in many languages). This talk will focus on what Gearman is, some use cases for it, and how you can quickly start using it with PHP.

The meeting is being held at Thompson Technologies Thursday, November 1st from 7-9pm. A mini-talk from Scott Lively about PHP_CodeSniffer will also be given.

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